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Educators
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
4
–
7 pm
Join Jean-Michel Dissard, director of the acclaimed documentary I Learn America (2013), for a workshop examining personal narrative and immigration experiences. Clips from the film, which follows newly arrived immigrant teens at a Brooklyn high school, will complement tours of the exhibition Masterpieces & Curiosities: A Russian-American Quilt. Discussion around the film and the show’s centerpiece — an elaborate, circa-1899 quilt bearing Eastern European and American imagery — will explore how art and media can tell stories of immigration, relocation, and assimilation.
Registration deadline: November 25
To register, please email schedulingcoordinator@thejm.org or call 212.423.3225.
$15 (includes a light dinner). Special education teachers are invited to attend these workshops free of charge.
Quilt, Russia and United States, c. 1899, velvet: embroidered with wool, silk, and metallic thread; glass beads, 81 1/2 × 65 in. (207 × 165.1 cm). The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Judaica Acquisitions Fund, 1986-119.
Photo: Joseph Sachs.
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